Occupation and the making of Occupation, 2002

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A nighttime scene is to be filmed. Held together by a rectangle marked out on the ground, 200 extras await their cues, and yet the direction and production staffs are in conflict with one another. The atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The restless crowd develops a life of its own as the film team attempts to keep the situation under control.

A nighttime scene is to be filmed. Held together by a rectangle marked out on the ground, 200 extras await their cues, and yet the direction and production staffs are in conflict with one another. The atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The restless crowd develops a life of its own as the film team attempts to keep the situation under control.

The Making of Occupation, 2002
The video, The Making of Occupation, shows the work of the film team with the extras during shooting in Leipzig in 2001.
Digital video, 4:3, stereo, 10 min
Camera: Arthur Zalewski

Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. The artist and filmmaker studied photography and media at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and graduated as Meisterschüler of Astrid Klein in 2005. Clemens von Wedemeyer participated in group shows such as the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). He had solo shows among others at MoMA PS1, New York, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, the Barbican Art Centre, London, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. “ESIOD 2015” premiered at the 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale) in 2016.